Death
Sullivan had been close to blind for almost all of her life, but by 1935, she became completely blind. She died on October 20th, 1936 at the age 70 in Forest Hills, New York after being in a coma. Sullivan passed with Keller holding her hand. When Keller herself died in 1968, her ashes were placed in the Washington National Cathedral next to Anne's.
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Famous quotes containing the word death:
“It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all.”
—Indian proverb, quoted in Sébastien-roch Nicolas de Chamfort, Maxims and Considerations, vol. 1, no. 155 (1796, trans. 1926)
“If thou art rich, thou’rt poor,
For like an ass, whose back with ingots bows,
Thou bear’st thy heavy riches but a journey,
And death unloads thee.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“I know death hath ten thousand several doors
For men to take their exits.”
—John Webster (1580–1625)